Glúmr Gráf 10I
Alison Finlay (ed.) 2012, ‘Glúmr Geirason, Gráfeldardrápa 10’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 260.
Hjoggusk ‘struck the other’
hǫggva (verb): to strike, put to death, cut, hew
[1] Hjoggusk (‘hiuguzt’): so FskAˣ, ‘hiugiuz’ FskBˣ
hvárir ‘Each of the two’
kennings
Hvárirtveggja heggir eggja mækis‘Each of the two groups of cherry-trees of the sword’s blades ’
= WARRIORS
Each of the two groups of cherry-trees of the sword’s blades → WARRIORS
tveggja ‘groups of’
kennings
Hvárirtveggja heggir eggja mækis‘Each of the two groups of cherry-trees of the sword’s blades ’
= WARRIORS
Each of the two groups of cherry-trees of the sword’s blades → WARRIORS
heggis ‘’
kennings
Hvárirtveggja heggir eggja mækis‘Each of the two groups of cherry-trees of the sword’s blades ’
= WARRIORS
Each of the two groups of cherry-trees of the sword’s blades → WARRIORS
mækis ‘blades’
kennings
Hvárirtveggja heggir eggja mækis‘Each of the two groups of cherry-trees of the sword’s blades ’
= WARRIORS
Each of the two groups of cherry-trees of the sword’s blades → WARRIORS
eggja ‘of the sword’s’
kennings
Hvárirtveggja heggir eggja mækis‘Each of the two groups of cherry-trees of the sword’s blades ’
= WARRIORS
Each of the two groups of cherry-trees of the sword’s blades → WARRIORS
varð ‘had’
í ‘against’
ganga ‘advance’
geirdrótt ‘spear-troop’
Haraldr ‘Haraldr’
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